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The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Wheeee posted:

fuse status: owns

30-30 status: owns

a good patch

I expect they'll be nerfing the 30-30 soon. Just too good!

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The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


freebooter posted:

Also, is anyone else getting weird lag? Had one I'd never encountered before today, which was like everything was moving in slow motion; as though I was walking around and picking things up underwater. It was slow but perfectly smooth, whereas usually lag is more, like, juddery. You'll suddenly appear right at a door you were walking towards etc.

This happens from time to time on PS4, if you live long enough it usually clears up as people die and leave the server.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


SteelMentor posted:

After my last few games I'm all for this.

Pubbies just can't resist running into the middle of a 2+ way firefight and flailing around in confusion as their MLG pro l33t gamer skills suddenly fail as they're riddled with bullets on every side.

And it's always the *middle* of a fight. Trying to find a flank is for newbs, apparently.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


oh dope posted:

It's one hell of a nerf. Pushing through Caustic's trap set ups won't even be a big deal now. Rip gassy boy.

Gotta move him back to season 1 level pick rates.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Plank Walker posted:

I haven't really played since like season 2 and now I'm trying to get a friend into this game. What are the skulltowns of the current map rotation these days?

What platform? On PS it seems to be Gauntlet, Crash Site, the Cage, and whatever's closest in the Repulsor/Hydro Dam/Labs/Capacitor line. I assume it's pretty similar on other platforms.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Is there something up with filling squds? On PS4 I'm getting a full squad like maybe 25% of the time these days, it used to be a lot better.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


repiv posted:

I missed that heat shields got nerfed already, don't think it was posted here

https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1374433790701883393?s=19

i noticed this last night. is there any point to them now except to dilute the loot pool?

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Space Fish posted:

How do you troll kids with absolutely no chill?
Every few matches I'll end up with some punk who tells me how much I suck at the game (unlike them, the masters of Call of Duty) right before they inevitably die first and cry out "comegetme comegetme hereherehere come onnnnnnn" while pinging the same spot 100 times.

Most of the lovely people on PSN disconnect immediately, so this isn't really a thing. My go to move for toxic ranked teammates is to crouch in front of a revive beacon with my gun away for like 30 seconds then run away.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


SKULL.GIF posted:

About 1/3 of my games in solo trios have a missing teammate.

Same. It got better for a couple of weeks, but it's been like this pretty much all season.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


AnEdgelord posted:

Olympus is a poor replacement and unless the changes are drastic Im dreading it sticking around any longer.

It looks super nice and all, but it's pretty empty for as big as it is. It feels like almost every rotation has you open to snipers for way too long.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Rad Valtar posted:

So for the last 3 days I’m getting rubber banding in every match I’m in. Every 30 seconds it pop up the prediction error icon and jolts me around. Anyone else experiencing this on Playstation?

It's been bad on PS4 all season but got better for a couple of weeks before this event. It's been crap again since it started.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


wa27 posted:

Another season with no Prowler? :negative:

Definitely don't love that my favorite gun will continue to be unobtainable. Adding *another* shotgun to the floor doesn't seem fun, but whatevs.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


dragon enthusiast posted:

wonder how many pubs will bail from arenas immediately once they realize they aren't going to win

Based on the winter event: whenever a team goes down by 2, at least 1 pubbie will bail

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


xtal posted:

Lol Crypto only gets one drone per arena round. Can't tell if they hate or ignore this hero.

Bloodhound gets 1 scan. There's probably some explanation somewhere about how that part of arena works, but I couldn't find it in the 15 seconds you have to shop and look at stuff.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Arbite posted:

It says the season's lasting 80ish days on the mode select, does that mean there's be no mid-season rank reset?

AFAIK, mid-season reset for ranked has never been called out until a week or 2 before the reset. I assume the reset is going to happen in around 35ish days.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Sultan Tarquin posted:

Nice, Lobas ult is totally hosed as well.

How so? I've played a handful of matches as her this season and it seemed fine?

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


dragon enthusiast posted:

idk what it is about this season but I've been playing like complete poo poo. Either I'm missing all my shots or I get instantly lasered by the other squad.

Been doing good in arenas as long as the pubbies have a pulse but that's about the only bright spot

I feel like it's come up a few times, but this season is extremely sweaty. I assume the lack of other shooters right now is the biggest issue. I need a new COD to come out so Apex sucks less :(

The Diddler fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Jun 4, 2021

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Did you check the discord?

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Revitalized posted:

Random fact: Revenant can climb high enough to rotate *over* Bunker on KC.

That being said, it is an out of bounds zone, but you can make it over in <30 seconds before you die.


Might be useful for ranked if KC comes back in Ranked rotation. Granted, you can't take your teammates with you as a Revenant, but if you're trying to squeeze out placement with bunker being gatekept, it's a possibility.

I don't understand how, in a game full of movement mechanics, climbing is cool, but man...his climbing is cool.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


I'm to the point where I only play arena's if there's an event for it, therefore indirectly encouraging arena-only events.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


egg tats posted:

I want everyone talking about how op seer is to consider that not only is he going to be in 90% of squads this week, but also that Valkyrie seemed oppressive as gently caress a few weeks ago until everyone learned to start looking upwards every once in a while.

seers tac is pretty hard to hit with at the best of times, and his passive doesn't automatically relay info to your teammates. without the passive the tactical is actually useless

I feel like his ult could stand to be a bit easier to see, though that might come with time

I'm curious to see how it is in a couple of weeks, but it feels like he's "Horizon launch" broken. The fact there's no way to tell when he's using his tactical or found you with it means that he's always going to be pretty annoying. It'll get at least a little better when there aren't 20 in every game tho.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Dyz posted:

Is the heartbeat sensor 360 or in a cone in front of you when you ads?

It's a cone. If you run the sensor without a gun out, you can see the cone on the minimap along with a faint outline on the ground of the scan range.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


10 Beers posted:

Nope. Arenas is super boring to me and I wish they would stop centering events around it. At least the rewards are just stars and blue loot boxes.

I'll play it if the event rewards are worth it, but thankfully they keep the rewards pretty meh so I don't have to play it.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


tweet my meat posted:

God this progression bug on ps4 is making it very difficult to enjoy the game. Nothing you do sticks, xp disappears, challenges revert back to incomplete, battlepass levels and rewards disappear, even changes to your banner disappear. Really hope they don't wait until Tuesday for the hotfix because the progression system is literally nonfunctional right now.

When did that start? I haven't played this weekend, but it seemed fine for me last week.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006



Earlier this week it was implied that they were removing the flashbang from his tactical and that was it. Have they announced what the actual changes are going to be yet?

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


That was bugged for a bit right at the beginning of the season, but I believe that's been fixed.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


I got a PS4 game today with 5 total people in it, 1 person in each squad. I got 4th :(

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Fat Lou posted:

I wish holo sprays were a thing a year ago when I took a break and down ranked. I want to be able to hit people with a bronze holo spray after killing people in diamond.

I play very little ranked, but I've been doing this in pubs for a while now. It's one of those small things that make me giggle.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Is anyone else doing the monster can rewards thing? You submit receipts and not can codes, and the automated process decided that my two 12 packs were 2 total cans. Has anyone else had any luck with this? I just want prizes for my caffeine addiction :smith:

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Gunder posted:

It takes a special type of stupidity to think that adding these sorts of diversions to a competitive multiplayer game is a good idea. Add these things in, by all means, but section them off into their own single-player instance instead of polluting the main mode with incentives for people not to play properly. I remember Valve rowing back on linking the unlocking of TF2 weapons to certain Steam achievements. All it did was encourage people to play in extremely weird ways that weren't at all conducive to a good game of Team Fortress.

As someone who almost exclusively plays pubs, this isn't the reason people aren't "playing properly."

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


The place where they decide the "proper way to play" Apex is *also* the place that said "make 'em chase a bird" so it would appear to me that for the next month the "proper way to play" in pubs might involve chasing a bird.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but the devs have had different priorities then the community pretty much since launch, for better and worse.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Someone solo dropping away from the team and dying and leaving isn't doing that because of me. And honestly yeah, I'm often not able to get them up because they both die as soon as we make contact with a squad and I'm stuck 1v3 trying to survive!

I'm playing on PSN, and this is a fairly stereotypical representation of how games go. Like someone else mentioned, you should start seeing some of this stuff a bit less in pubs if you show a decent control of the game mechanics. But if you want a guaranteed decent squad you don't want to rely on the game providing them for you.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Abroham Lincoln posted:



It's only 3 stars I guess but still

I love that they managed to hotpatch the problem of getting too many items out of the event packs, but they can't fix the dailies. I assume it's far more complicated then it looks to fix, but the optics of their patching priorities are very lol

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Sandwich Anarchist posted:

They could focus on fixing the known glaring issues before adding new content that they won't maintain, but hey

The map guy is probably not the guy in charge of fixing footsteps or whatever

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Being frustrated that we keep getting new skins and art while the game is broken?

Inconceivable.

Ok, but the "new skins and art" pipeline is probably longer than you'd think. Think about the new map: it was datamined like 3 seasons ago already, so they've been working on it for at least 6 months and it still isn't more than a rumor. I know it doesn't feel like it, but it's not like they're just cranking out a P2020 skin on Monday and throwing it in the shop on Wednesday. I love dunking on Respawn as much as the next guy, but sometimes it's pretty clear that people don't understand how software development happens.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Chemmy posted:

Unless there’s something else in their place. Olympus tried the Tridents.

Someone leaked muddy tridents a couple of months ago, so I would expect those at least.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Keito posted:

You'd think they could delay the lines instead of the whole mode then but I guess their lovely story gets priority over gameplay

lol, like anyone would be playing shadows after 14 days

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


CoolCab posted:

the best shotgun in the game right now also happens to be the best marksman weapon so it's confusing

hell yeah, 30-30 crew in the house

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Cowslips Warren posted:

Just a courtesy FYI, the prowlers can in fact knock down doors.

I just barely lost a 1v1 vs a Lifeline, who was then 3rd partied by a prowler for the squad wipe. I didn't even get an assist :mad:

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The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


Keito posted:

After sweating up in Winter Express for about five hours with Caustic exclusively over the past couple of days, man does it feel good. It's kind of like playing Tetris when you're busy making GBS threads up the place with independent variables in optimal placement - is this what gasman mains are enjoying daily? Might have to reconsider my character choices.

Yeah, leaving fart bombs all over the map is great fun, and watching the ants scatter when you ult a deathbox will never get old...until they nerf him more :(

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